Person
Assata Shakur
- Specialty
- Acting
- Birth
- July 16, 1947 · 78 years
- Death
- September 25, 2025
- Origin
- Queens, New York, USA
Technical Alias
Joanne Chesimard
Professional Trajectory
Assata Olugbala Shakur, born JoAnne Deborah Byron, sometimes referred to by her married surname Chesimard, is a former member of the Black Liberation Army, who was convicted, under New Jersey's "aiding and abetting" statute, of the first-degree murder of State Trooper Werner Foerster during a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike in 1973. On November 2, 1979, she escaped from prison, and in 1984, she surfaced in Cuba, where she was granted political asylum.
